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There is a special place in hell for people that eat dogs.
I like dogs and have had them as pets. But not everyone shares our liking for predator species as pets. For much of the world, dogs are working animals* and/or food, just like cattle. Ironically, Indonesia would be a better place if dog consumption were universal there. Because that would mean the local population were either non-Muslim or non-observant Muslims.
* Dogs are not particularly rare and they breed like rabbits. The mutts I looked after (Boxer mixes - great dogs that never ever chomped down on me, even though we were more or less the same size for a while) had multiple litters over the course of their lives.
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It would have been easier if her husband hadn’t abandoned the family after the last ones were conceived. Easier still if the woman’s family — or her husband’s family — rallied round to help, but her mother died after she was born, and then her stepmother murdered the elder siblings. Easiest of all if she’d been able to get her tubes tied or her husband had a vasectomy, but the non-wealthy in Nigeria do not have such options.
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How about "Quit worrying about UFO's and Don't run into anybody!"
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"If you sense a mysterious blip
Or bright lights or loud sounds, here's a tip:
Glance away from your phone
And inform someone grown,
Cuz it might be some other kid's ship!"
[AlAhram] Damanhour Criminal Court issued Wednesday death sentences on two defrocked monks on charges of killing the head of their desert monastery last summer.
The court issued a preliminary death sentence 23 February and referred the sentences handed down on the two monks, Isaiah El-Maqary and Faltaous El-Makary, to the country’s grand mufti for his non-binding opinion, as required by Egyptian law.
Wednesday's court decision is not final and can still be appealed within 60 days.
The murder of Bishop Epiphanius sparked outrage in Coptic circles and led to serious measures by the Coptic Orthodox Church to contain the situation.
On 29 July, the 64-year-old bishop was found dead under suspicious circumstances. He had led Abu Maqar Monastery in Wadi El-Natroun, northwest of Cairo.
The prosecution charged the two men with premeditated murder.
According to the prosecution, the two men ambushed the bishop on his way from his residence to the monastery chapel, where Isaiah, now referred to by his non-monastic name, Wael Saad Tawadros, hit him on the head with a steel bar.
Following the murder, the church imposed new measures to regulate monastic life.
They include a freeze on accepting new monks, a ban on monks’ use of social media, a ban on building non-sanctioned places of worship, and a ban on monks leaving monasteries without official permission.
Challenge for both President Poroshenko, and President-elect Zelensky, as a move effectively nullifying Minsk agreements and is an act of war https://t.co/Y1UEjcHptJ
VLADIVOSTOK, Russia (AP) ‐ Russian President Vladimir Putin said after his summit with Kim Jong Un Thursday that the North Korean leader is ready to proceed toward denuclearization ‐ but needs solid security guarantees to do so.
Putin said that he will be willing to share details of the summit with U.S. President Donald Trump, adding that "there are no secrets." He noted that Kim himself encouraged him to explain certain nuances of Pyongyang's position to Trump. "nuances". Aye, there's the rub
The summit on Russky Island, across a bridge from the far-eastern port city of Vladivostok, reflected Russia's effort to emerge as an essential player in the North Korean nuclear standoff, a role that would raise Moscow's global clout and its leverage with Washington.
Putin emphasized that the North Korean leader is ready to move toward a nuclear-free status but would only proceed when he gets solid guarantees. He did not, however, specify what those guarantees would look like. "Above all, he focuses on protecting national interests and security," Putin said.
[KoreaHerald] A senior North Korean official, who served as Pyongyang’s chief interlocutor in talks with the United States, has been replaced as head of a key espionage agency handling inter-Korean affairs, a lawmaker said Wednesday.
Kim Yong-chol, chief of the United Front Department, was recently replaced by Jang Kum-chol, Rep. Lee Hye-hoon of the Bareunmirae Party, who leads the National Assembly’s Intelligence Committee, said, citing a source from Seoul’s spy agency.
Jang, who is barely known to the outside world, is reportedly in his late 50s and has a career of working for civilian exchanges between the two Koreas.
Kim was the North’s top negotiator in denuclearization talks with the United States. His US counterpart was Secretary of State Mike Pompeo. It was unclear if his replacement as chief of the espionage agency affected his status as chief negotiator in talks with the US
Nuclear negotiations between the two countries have been stalled after February’s summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and US President Donald Trump ended without an agreement due to differences over Pyongyang’s denuclearization steps and Washington’s sanctions relief.
Kim Yong-chol’s absence in the leader’s entourage that arrived in Russia’s Far East city of Vladivostok later in the day for a summit with President Vladimir Putin raised speculation over his possible replacement from the post.
It is the first time that he has not accompanied the leader on an overseas trip.
Despite the replacement, observers say that Kim Yong-chol is expected to maintain his post as a vice chairman of the central committee of the North’s ruling party.
Recenlty, he and other nuclear negotiators, including First Vice Foreign Minister Choe Son-hui, also became members of the State Affairs Commission to which Kim Jong-un was re-elected as chairman.
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Smith Smith-smith the vice chairman of the ruling committee of the northern party is expected to replace Smith Smith-smythe the vice chairman of northern committee of the ruling party.
#BREAKING: North Korea blasts US-South Korean Air Force drills as “military provocation against the DPRK” & states “there will be corresponding response to it from our army”- KCNA statement https://t.co/q47Gx6Km95
[THEEPOCHTIMES] North Korean leader Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... left Vietnam on March 2, after failing to come to a negotiation during the summit with U.S. President Donald Trump ...New York real estate developer, described by Dems as illiterate, racist, misogynistic, and what ever other unpleasant descriptions they can think of, elected by the rest of us as 45th President of the United States... Some fascinating details have since been unveiled about Kim’s visit, highlighting the deep sense of paranoia within the communist regime.
North Korean guards spent five hours cleaning up all traces of Kim the leader might have left in the hotel, according to Chosun Ilbo, a South Korean newspaper.
Kim Jong-un left the Melia Hanoi Hotel in Vietnam at 9:30 a.m. on March 2. When a Chosun Ilbo news hound arrived at the hotel at around 2 p.m., access to the 21st and 22nd floor was still restricted with the North Korean security team guarding the stairways.
Kim stayed on the 22nd floor and had presided over meetings on the 21st floor. The security team was busy cleaning up the room and the hallway on these two levels.
Chosun Ilbo analyzed that given the timing, the security team was likely removing all "biomarkers" Kim might have left, such as strands of hair, fingerprints, or saliva. Suet Sweat is the worst
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If they get your toenails, they can make evil on you. I learned that on the Sopranos.
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In Cold War one of soviet leaders, i don't remember which one, was discovered to be unhealthy because when stayed in a western country his feces were collected and analyzed.
[Australian War Memorial] Anzac Day, 25 April, is one of Australia’s most important national occasions. It marks the anniversary of the first major military action fought by Australian and New Zealand forces during the First World War.
ANZAC stands for Australian and New Zealand Army Corps. The soldiers in those forces quickly became known as Anzacs, and the pride they took in that name endures to this day.
The Australian and New Zealand forces landed on Gallipoli on 25 April, meeting fierce resistance from the Ottoman Turkish defenders. What had been planned as a bold stroke to knock Turkey out of the war quickly became a stalemate, and the campaign dragged on for eight months. At the end of 1915 the allied forces were evacuated from the peninsula, with both sides having suffered heavy casualties and endured great hardships. More than 8,000 Australian soldiers had died in the campaign. Gallipoli had a profound impact on Australians at home, and 25 April soon became the day on which Australians remembered the sacrifice of those who died in the war.
Although the Gallipoli campaign failed in its military objectives, the actions of Australian and New Zealand forces during the campaign left a powerful legacy. What became known as the "Anzac legend" became an important part of the identity of both nations, shaping the ways in which they viewed both their past and their future.
[DAWN] NAROWAL: Three suspects were tossed in the slammer Don't shoot, coppers! I'm comin' out! on Monday for gang-raping and murdering an 11-year-old girl.
A labourer of Kot Abdul Malik in Sheikhupura district and his family had gone to Shakargarh to attend a wedding on Sunday. After the wedding, his daughter ’Z’, 11, was going to her maternal uncle’s house in Miadian village with her cousins on the uncle’s cycle of violence.
On the way, the uncle met his neighbour near Narowal city who offered to drop one of the children home. The uncle made ’Z’ travel with the neighbour.
When the uncle reached home, he asked the family about Z, who told him she had not reached yet. He asked his neighbour about it, who told him he had dropped Z outside the house. The family informed Rayya Khas police about the incident and also searched for the minor, but in vain.
On Monday morning, police arrested the neighbour, S, and interrogated him about the girl. He told police that he, along with two of his friends, had raped Z and then strangled her to death. On the indication of the suspect, Z’s body was recovered from wheat fields.
According to police sources, Z had been raped after tying her hands and a number of scars were found on her body. Rayya Khas police took the body into custody and shifted it to the DHQ hospital for post-mortem.
After the post-mortem, police completed legal formalities and handed over Z’s body to her relatives. Her family then left for Kot Abdul Malik where she would be laid to rest.
Z’s father said: "The Rayya Khas police in connivance with the murderers has started the paperwork but haven't done much else under Section 365-B of the PPC and arrested them, while my minor daughter was first kidnapped and then gang-raped.
Police have not included the relevant sections in the first information report. Punjab 1.) Little Orphan Annie's bodyguard
2.) A province of Pakistain ruled by one of the Sharif brothers
3.) A province of India. It is majority (60 percent) Sikh and Hindoo (37 percent), which means it has relatively few Moslem riots.... Chief Minister Usman Buzdar and Prime Minister Imran Khan ... aka Taliban Khan, who who convinced himself that playing cricket qualified him to lead a nuclear-armed nation with severe personality problems... should get my daughter and family justice."
According to the district police front man, all three culprits were arrested and investigation was under way.
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In March 2018, 18-year-old high schooler Ousmane Bah got a learner's permit to drive in the city of New York. Then, he lost it.
What follows is the unholy marriage of technology and bypassing due process
[NakedSecurity] No biggie, right? It had his name, address, date of birth, sex, height, and eye color, but it didn't have his photo. These things are just printed receipts, issued as interim permits until an official permit arrives in the mail.
As far as identity theft goes, Bah didn't worry about it. The license said on its face that it wasn't meant to serve for identification purposes. He'd get an actual permit in the mail shortly, so he didn&'t file a police report.
Unfortunately, there was more for Bah to worry about than he realized. He got a summons to appear in Boston municipal court. He had been accused of larceny over $1,200 for allegedly ripping off multiple Apple pencils, each of which retail for $99, from an Apple store in Boston.
Bah says he's never been to Boston before the 27 June arraignment. What's more, on the date of the alleged theft, he'd been at his senior prom in Manhattan. That wouldn't be the only criminal charges he'd face, either.
According to a lawsuit Bah filed on Monday in the US District Court for the Southern District of New York, he';s been charged with similar crimes in multiple jurisdictions, including Delaware, Massachusetts, New Jersey and New York, all for allegedly ripping off Apple stores. Three of the cases have been dropped, the suit said, but the one in New Jersey is still pending.
Bah is suing Apple for $1 billion for what his suit says is Apple's reliance on facial recognition software to identify a suspect, who, the suit says, must have gotten his hands on Bah's photo-less interim license. That permit was never supposed to be used as identification, yet Apple allegedly failed to use anything else to verify the true suspect's identity. From the suit:
The irony here is that Defendant [Apple] relied heavily on one method of identification ‐ facial recognition software ‐ and failed to use a more labor-intensive form of verifying the true suspect's identity. The latter method is similar in many ways to multi-step authentication; it requires the use of information from various, reliable sources, such as a driver's license photograph or a government-issued identification card that contains a photograph, to confirm a particular individual's identity. Given the number of individuals who provide false identification when suspected of committing a crime, it is remarkable that Defendant blindly accepted the photograph-less learner's permit as a valid form of identification.
Does Apple really use facial recognition to identify shoplifters? As the Washington Post reports, the company declined to comment on the lawsuit itself, but it did say that it does not, in fact, use the technology in its stores.
HOW IN THE WORLD DID APPLE FINGER BAH FOR THE CRIME?
According to the lawsuit, Bah, who was arrested at his home in November, was served a warrant that had somebody else's photo on it. The suit claims that a New York detective who viewed surveillance video from the Manhattan store concluded that the alleged thief "looked nothing like" Bah.
The suspect' height, in fact, didn't match what was listed on Bah's learner's permit.
Similar to the detective's conclusion, the Boston district attorney, after looking at surveillance footage, dismissed the case against Bah.
Bah's suit claims that none of these charges should have been made against him. They were because Apple allegedly accepted an interim permit, without a photo, that never should have been used for identification purposes, as a valid form of identification.
Bah has been forced to travel to multiple states to fight these spurious charges, the suit claims, was subject to a "shocking and traumatic" arrest at his home at 4:00 am, has been shamed and humiliated, and was forced to miss multiple days at school, which has brought down his grades.
Besides the $1 billion, the suit seeks a declaration that Apple "wrongfully and baselessly damaged" Bah's reputation, and a court order compelling Apple to "address the mistake in the stored data" that links Bah's identifying information to the company's facial recognition technology.
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Soon to be sitting on the bottom of the ocean, broken and flooded.
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Officially known as Project-09852, the submarine was originally an Oscar II-class cruise missile submarine that the Russian government ran of funds to complete. The submarine hull sat unfinished until Moscow decided to complete it as a special mission submarine.
The hull was lengthened to approximately 184 meters (604 feet) and the ship’s displacement ballooned to 30,000 tons submerged--more than fifty percent greater than the U.S. Navy’s Ohio-class ballistic missile submarines. The result of an unfinished hull the Belgorod is a one-off, and there will not be another one like it.
That big, with the huge displacement, and an old-style propulsion and signature will make sure it's only secret when it goes missing
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Oscar II subs were noisy in the 80s. If it uses the same power plant, propulsion and coatings as the Oscars... it will be like an underwater rave going on noise wise. Even updated I doubt it could stay hidden near listening posts or newer subs.
Maybe they mean for this to sit in tight areas rigged for silence and then pepper convoys with torpedoes and run like hell.
[Los Alamos National Laboratory] Visualizing ocean asteroid impact
An asteroid splashing down in one of Earth’s oceans could inject billions of tons of water into the atmosphere, but the risk of a catastrophic tsunami is actually relatively small. Scientists from Los Alamos National Laboratory are using high performance computing to investigate how an asteroid’s kinetic energy is transferred to the atmosphere and ocean. These studies help scientists understand the consequences of asteroid impacts and assist NASA’s Office of Planetary Defense in deciding how to best track near-Earth objects (NEOs).
For their work on this project, Los Alamos’ Data Science at Scale Team won the Best Visualization and Data Analytics Showcase award at Supercomputing 2016 for their video “Visualization and Analysis of Threats from Asteroid Ocean Impacts.” This is the second consecutive year that Los Alamos’ Data Science at Scale Team has won this award.
Watch the award winning video here at the Los Alamos’ Data Science at Scale Team's website.
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These studies help scientists understand the consequences of asteroid impacts and assist NASA’s Office of Planetary Defense in deciding how to best crush port facilities.
#18SPCS confirmed breakup of ATLAS 5 CENTAUR R/B (2018-079B, #43652) on April 6, 2019. Tracking 14 associated pieces – no indication caused by collision.
If he was a convicted felon with a firearm, I'm good with that. He also seems to be a Dem/Deep State Trophy? No protective custody? Too scared of the precedent or his "militia" of, like, 8 people?
[10 News] Authorities say the leader of a civilian group that has detained asylum-seeking migrants along the U.S.-Mexico border was injured while he was jailed in New Mexico, after being arrested on federal weapons charges.
The Dona Ana County Sheriff's Office said Wednesday in a statement that 69-year-old Larry Hopkins was transferred Tuesday out of the county jail after suffering non-life threatening injuries Monday night.
The statement did not provide specifics on the "alleged battery" in which Hopkins was injured in Las Cruces, but Hopkins' lawyer, Kelly O'Connell, told the Albuquerque Journal that his client was hospitalized for rib injuries following an altercation.
The FBI arrested Hopkins on a federal complaint accusing him of being a felon in illegal possession of firearms and ammunition.
O'Connell has said Hopkins will plead not guilty.
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a federal complaint accusing him of being a felon in illegal possession of firearms and ammunition.
Reading his history, this seems like a major reach to contain him, rather than response to a criminal act.
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1. make you a felon
2. arrest you for: embarassing the govt having a firearm
3. send to prison full of the people he's trying to keep out of the country
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[KoreaHerald] A senior North Korean official, who served as Pyongyang’s chief interlocutor in talks with the United States, has been replaced as head of a key espionage agency handling inter-Korean affairs, a lawmaker said Wednesday.
North Korea
[Australian War Memorial] Anzac Day, 25 April, is one of Australia’s most important national occasions. It marks the anniversary of the first major military action fought by Australian and New Zealand forces during the First World War.
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In March 2018, 18-year-old high schooler Ousmane Bah got a learner's permit to drive in the city of New York. Then, he lost it.
